# Capite

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{{Short description|Land tenure in old English law}}
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In old [English law](/source/English_law), a '''capite''' (from Latin ''caput'', head) was a [tenure](/source/Land_tenure) in [subinfeudation](/source/subinfeudation), by which either person or [land](/source/land_tenure) was held immediately of the king, or of his crown, either by [knight-service](/source/knight-service) or [socage](/source/socage).<ref>{{cite book |title=A Report of Cases and Matters of Law, Resolved and Adjudged in the King's Courts in Ireland |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Davies |year=1762 |publisher=Printed for Sarah Cotter |location=Dublin |url=https://archive.org/details/areportcasesand00davigoog |page=[https://archive.org/details/areportcasesand00davigoog/page/n164 160]}}</ref> A holder of a capite is termed a [tenant-in-chief](/source/tenant-in-chief).

Tenures in capite were abolished by the [Tenures Abolition Act 1660](/source/Tenures_Abolition_Act_1660).

==References==
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* {{Cyclopaedia 1728 |title=Capite |url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?type=turn&entity=HistSciTech.Cyclopaedia01.p0308&id=HistSciTech.Cyclopaedia01&isize=M |accessdate= |volume=1 |page=154|ref=none}}

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Category:English laws

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